Camelot 3000 #10

With only two issues left in DC's landmark 12-part maxi-series, Camelot 3000 #10 arrives in January 1984 with a cover that crackles with urgency — Brian Bolland renders King Arthur, golden-armored and crown-bearing, alongside a young gunman and a purple-helmeted warrior, all three blazing through a storm of laser beams and exploding debris. The diagonal energy blasts and flying rubble give the scene a relentless kinetic energy that makes the "Prelude to War!" title feel entirely earned. Writer Mike W. Barr and Bolland's series has been one of the most ambitious sci-fi/fantasy fusions DC had attempted, and this penultimate stretch looks every bit as gripping as the issues that preceded it.